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AppIndicator for KDE Connect
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cannot connect to KDE Connect DBus service #50

Closed Jab2870 closed 7 years ago

Jab2870 commented 7 years ago

I have installed indicator-kdeconnect and tried to run it but I get an alert box that says cannot connect to KDE Connect DBus service

I am using i3 as my window manager.

Can anybody help?

b4j4 commented 7 years ago

That means you don't have kdeconnect installed or it not running.

Jab2870 commented 7 years ago

Thanks, i have it kdeconnect installed, how would i start it?

hotice commented 7 years ago

You may have an older version of KDE Connect. I encountered this issue while testing KDE Connect Indicator in Linux Mint 18 without adding the PPA. So I had KDE Connect 0.8, instead of 1.0.3.

Jab2870 commented 7 years ago

Hi, thanks all,

In case anybody ever comes accross this I solved it by running the kde connect deamon first. In the case of i3, I added the following lines to my i3 config

exec --no-startup-id /usr/lib/kdeconnectd
exec --no-startup-id indicator-kdeconnect

It might be a good idea to add this to the readme

b4j4 commented 7 years ago

@Jab2870 maybe this only happen on i3, because on other's DE the indicator-kdeconnect and kdeconnect is added to start up applications

khozaei commented 7 years ago

I have this problem on Gentoo Gnome shell 3.22.2, too.

khozaei commented 7 years ago

@Jab2870 error: exec: --: invalid option

b4j4 commented 7 years ago

@aiot-dev on Gnome Shell use the tool 'gnome-tweek-tool' to add them to start up applications.

fademyke commented 7 years ago

@Bajoja 'gnome-tweak-tool' only shows KDE Connect Indicator as a startup option, for me.

b4j4 commented 7 years ago

@fademyke but KDEConnect already autostart with your system?